Control system for trials on material ship model

Abstract

The paper presents software environement for fast prototyping and verification of motion control systems for ship. The environement is prepared for isomorphic reduced ship model which is used for training and in research in a area of ship motion control. The control system is build using Matlab-Simulink-xPC package which simplifies and accellerates design and verification of new control algorithms. The systems was prepared also for Hardwarein-the-loop trials when a designed control system is tested inside a virtual environment instead of real actuators, disturbances, communication and measurement devices.